expire

英 [ɪkˈspaɪə(r)]

美 [ɪkˈspaɪər]

v.  (因到期而)失效，终止; 到期; 届满; 逝世; 去世; 故去

过去式：expired　第三人称单数：expires　过去分词：expired　现在分词：expiring　

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Collins.2 / BNC.7014 / COCA.6647

柯林斯词典

• VERB 到期;期满;失效
  When something such as a contract, deadline, or visaexpires, it comes to an end or is no longer valid.
  1. He had lived illegally in the United States for five years after his visitor's visa expired.
     在访问签证到期后，他又在美国非法居住了5年。
• VERB 气绝;死亡;故去
  When someoneexpires, they die.
  1. He endured excruciating agonies before he finally expired.
     在最终离世前他经受了极大的痛苦。

英英释义

verb

• expel air
  1. Exhale when you lift the weight
  Synonym:exhalebreathe out
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  1. She died from cancer
  2. The children perished in the fire
  3. The patient went peacefully
  4. The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
  Synonym:diedeceaseperishgoexitpass awaypasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farmconkgive-up the ghostdrop deadpop offchokecroaksnuff it
• lose validity
  1. My passports expired last month
  Synonym:run out

双语例句

• My subscription to National Geographic will expire soon some going to renew it.
  我的国家地理杂志的订阅期限快到了，我会重新续订。
• First, we have to construct an ISO8601 date and set the policy document to expire by it.
  首先，我们需要创建一个ISO8601日期，然后将它设置为策略文档的过期时间。
• You decided to have it expire in two weeks time.
  你决定了它在两周内到期的时间。
• Does this check expire?
  这张支票过期了吗？
• B: My employment contract is about to expire.
  我的合同期满了。
• During the activation process you'll be notified when the trial will expire.
  在激活过程中，会通知您试用版到期的时间。
• My subscription to the magazine will soon expire, I will renew it.
  我订阅的杂志快到期了，我将续订。
• This is because currently an access token from Twitter does not expire.
  这是因为目前Twitter的访问令牌还没有到期。
• Alternatively, you can specify when the job will expire either by date or by elapsed time.
  或者，可以通过日期或经过的时间指定作业何时到期。
• But the two months expire next week.
  可那两个月的期限下星期就要到期。